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Re:Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of g... by FireBeyond on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @10:24PM (#45270864)
I wonder if that had anything at all to do with the Israeli right backing Hamas at the time, because they were being shamed internationally (haha) by the previously militant PLA/PLO being more and more willing to negotiate.

Netanyahu and his ilk didn't like the awkward questions of why the terrorists were negotiating but they weren't. So they started propping up Hamas.

> And when given the right to vote, they placed Hamas into power and began an Iran backed rocket crusade against Israel.

"They" started firing rockets, or Hamas? Hamas who is 30,000 of Gaza's 2.5M? Just when was that last election, again?

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Re:Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of g... by tguvot on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:10AM (#45272758)
Nobody in Israel propped up Hamas to win elections.

Palestinian elections in 2006 were forced by USA (because democracy and stuff) despite objections from Israel and PA who were afraid that Hamas will win.

When Hamas won elections and assembled government, USA sponsored coup executed by PLO. Coup succeeded in West Bank and failed in Gaza.

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